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stripe like two preceding. Dorsal vermilion, more or less mottled, front part 



more or less hyaline. Bases of caudal lobes purplish, become purplish crimson 



at tips and pale purplish in fork. 

 6700. Singaan Island. September 21, 1909. Length, 240 mm. 

 Two examples, U.S.N. M. Cebu. Dr. Fred Baker. Length, 108 to 110 mm. 



Pale median band from lower hind eye edge to caudal base medially, narrow 



at first and little wider behind. Narrow pale band along back parallel and 



above lateral line, rather obscure. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 5842. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 212 mm to 



median caudal ray tips, 314 mm to ends of upper caudal filaments. 

 One example, A.N.S.P. PhiHppines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 



Length, 245 mm. 



PENTAPODUS AUROUNEATUS (Lacfipide) 



Sparus aureo-lineatus LacepIide, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, pp. 42, 132, 1802 (no 

 locality). (On Commerson.) 



Pentapus aurolineatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, pp. 269, 559, pi. 

 157, 1830 (on Lac]6pJ:de).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 381 

 (Louisiades; Mauritius), p. 507 (note), 1859; Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vols. 

 2-3, pts. 5-6, p. 33, pi. 25B, 1874 (Kingsmills, Hervey, Samoa, Friendly, 

 Society, Paumotu, Louisiades Islands). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 No. 5, p. 23, 1874 (Samoa; Tahiti).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 93, 1875 

 (Ceylon). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 437 (Mauritius). — 

 Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 7, p. 40, 1879 (Samoa, Tahiti). — 

 GtJNTHER, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc, vol. 168, p. 471, 1879 (Rodriguez). — 

 Karoli, Termesz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 154, 1881 (Singapore). — 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 240, 1882 (New 

 Guinea).— PoHL, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, p. 29, 1884 (Samoa).— Day, 

 Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 530, 1889.— Pellegrin, Bull. Mus. 

 Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 18, p. 206, 1912 (Port Sandwich, New Hebrides).— 

 Fowler, Bishop Mus. Bull. 22, p. 10, 1925 (Guam); Bull. 38, p. 15, 1927 

 (Christmas Island). — Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, 

 art. 10, p. 7, 1927 (Poeloe Toekus Island, Sumatra). — Fowler, Mem. 

 Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 217, 1928 (Marcus, Nukuhiva, Tubuai, Mangareva, 

 Guam, New Guinea, Apia). — Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. 

 U. S. S. R., vol. 1, p. 46, 1930 (Itoman, Yaeyama, Riu Kiu). 



Gnathodentex aurolineatus Seale, Occas. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 4, No. 1, p. 45, 

 1906 (Tubuai, Mangareva). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 

 p. 269, 1905 (1906) (Apia). — Kendall and Radcliffe, Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 35, p. 117, 1912 (Mangareva). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 42, p. 500, 1912 (Okinawa). 



Pentapodus aurolineatus Fowler, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 

 (1930), p. 642 (Nukuhiva, Mangareva); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 5, 

 p. 335, 1931 (Solomon Islands). 



Dentex lycogenis Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 1, p. 127, 1831 (type 

 locality: Mauritius). 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2% to S%, width l%o to 2%. Snout 2% to SKo 

 in head; eye 2}^ to Sji, greater than snout in young to 1}^ with age, 

 greater than interorbital in young to 1}^ with age; maxillary reaches 

 opposite hind nostril or not quite opposite front eye edge, expansion 

 3 to 4% in eye; length 3 to 3% in head; teeth in villiform bands in front 

 of each jaw, with 7 or 8 irregular series, outer row enlarged and 4 in 

 front of each jaw with outermost Uttle enlarged and flaring outward; 



